Wii U UK Launch Guide

Our Stateside cousins have been enjoying Nintendo's new console for a little while now, and here in Europe we can officially join in on Friday. We've had an absolute tonne of Wii U info up on the site over the past few weeks, so to help you navigate it, we thought we'd put it all here in one place.

Picking up a Wii U on Friday? Still thinking about it? Hopefully this launch guide can help you decide.

For our money, the Premium bundle is really the only way to go - with 8GB of storage there's not even enough room to store one full game download, and Nintendo Land is worth the extra cash. You can expand Wii U's storage with an external USB hard drive - Nintendo recommends an AC-powered one for best results. Read how to set up USB storage on Wii here, and check Nintendo's advice on supported USB storage devices here.

We have guides to everything from save data transfers to transferring saved data, parental controls, turning off the console's power-saving auto-off function, updates and much more on our Wii U Wiki. You can also find guides to the best launch games.

We've got a Wii U launch video podcast coming soon, so keep an eye on this page in the run-up to launch.

Keza MacDonald is in charge of IGN's games team in the UK. You can follow her on IGN and Twitter.